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Fairness and the support of redistributive environmental policies
Andor, Mark Andreas; Lange, Andreas; Sommer, Stephan - 2022
Exemptions from costly policy measures are frequently applied to alleviate financial burdens to specific market participants. Using a stated-choice experiment with around 6,000 German household heads, we test how exemptions for low-income households and energy-intensive companies influence the...
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Equity and the willingness to pay for green electricity in Germany
Andor, Mark Andreas; Frondel, Manuel; Sommer, Stephan - 2018
The production of electricity on the basis of renewable energy technologies is a classic example of an impure public good. It is often discriminatively financed by industrial and household consumers, such as in Germany, where the energy-intensive sector benefits from a far-reaching exemption...
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Consequentiality, elicitation formats, and the willingness-to-pay for green electricity: Evidence from Germany
Andor, Mark Andreas; Frondel, Manuel; Horvath, Marco - 2020
Based on hypothetical responses originating from a large-scale survey among about 6,000 German households, this study investigates the discrepancy in willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates for green electricity across single-binary-choice and open-ended valuation formats. Recognizing that...
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Intuition and Reasoning in Choosing Ambiguous and Risky Lotteries
Bergheim, Ralf; Roos, Michael W.M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
This paper focuses on information acquisition and individual decision making in ambiguous situations and presents a novel experimental design which may help to tackle open questions from a fresh perspective. Instead of giving subjects the choice between risky and ambiguous Ellsberg urns, we let...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696524
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Teaching in the Lab: Financial Incentives in the Education Process
Helbach, Christoph; Keldenich, Klemens - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
This study uses a laboratory experiment to analyze the effectiveness of performance-based monetary incentives in the teaching process. The process of knowledge transmission is recreated using a video-stream. Four different teacher payment schemes are compared, three of which depend on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860291
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Information Acquisition and Decisions under Risk and Ambiguity
Bergheim, Ralf - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014
This paper experimentally investigates individual information acquisition and decisions in ambiguous situations in which the degree of ambiguity can endogenously and individually be decreased by the subjects. In particular, I analyze how risk aversion, ambiguity attitude and personality traits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778651
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Intuition and Reasoning in Choosing Ambiguous and Risky Lotteries
Bergheim, Ralf; Roos, Michael W. M. - 2013
This paper focuses on information acquisition and individual decision making in ambiguous situations and presents a novel experimental design which may help to tackle open questions from a fresh perspective. Instead of giving subjects the choice between risky and ambiguous Ellsberg urns, we let...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331335
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Teaching in the Lab: Financial Incentives in the Education Process
Helbach, Christoph; Keldenich, Klemens - 2012
This study uses a laboratory experiment to analyze the effectiveness of performance-based monetary incentives in the teaching process. The process of knowledge transmission is recreated using a video-stream. Four different teacher payment schemes are compared, three of which depend on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287296
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Information Acquisition and Decisions under Risk and Ambiguity
Bergheim, Ralf - 2014
This paper experimentally investigates individual information acquisition and decisions in ambiguous situations in which the degree of ambiguity can endogenously and individually be decreased by the subjects. In particular, I analyze how risk aversion, ambiguity attitude and personality traits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368131
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A mechanism of proportional contributions for public good games
Duesterhoeft, Ilka; Rogna, Marco; Vogt, Carla - 2023
reduction of a global pollutant, generally foresee scarce levels of cooperation. The incentive to free ride, that increases for … higher levels of cooperation, prevents the formation of stable coalitions. The introduction of other-regarding preferences …, in the form of Fehr and Schmidt utility functions, enlarges cooperation, but still at suboptimal levels. The present …
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